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Jelani Nelson
Senior Advisor, Simons Institute, UC Berkeley
Jelani Nelson is an EECS faculty member at UC Berkeley, where he is a member of the theory group. He is also a senior advisor at the Simons Institute.
Program Visits
- Data Structures and Optimization for Fast Algorithms, Fall 2023. Visiting Scientist and Workshop Organizer.
- Computational Complexity of Statistical Inference, Fall 2021. Visiting Scientist.
- Geometric Methods in Optimization and Sampling, Fall 2021. Visiting Scientist.
- Probability, Geometry, and Computation in High Dimensions, Fall 2020. Visiting Scientist, Program Organizer and Workshop Organizer.